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Friedrich Froebel: Interpolation, Extrapolation
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Watts, Mike – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Fredrich Froebel was a scientist, both in instinct and in training, and his life coincided with an important and dynamic period of scientific growth. I take this opportunity to delve both into some history and futurology to examine the heritage and legacy of his work. The usual of interpolation is of reading into data: where there exist some…
Descriptors: Scientists, History, Futures (of Society), Scientific Research
Teaching and Learning Physics Using Technology: Making a Case for the Affective Domain
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Ramma, Yashwantrao; Bholoa, Ajeevsing; Watts, Mike; Nadal, Pascal Sylvain – Education Inquiry, 2018
Even though its importance is underscored in many research pursuits, attention to the affective domain in learning is often neglected at the expense of the cognitive development of students studying science, in particular physics. In this paper we propose a framework, the pedagogical technological integrated medium (PTIM) founded on the TPACK…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
Contexts for Questioning: Two Zones of Teaching and Learning in Undergraduate Science
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Pedrosa-de-Jesus, Helena; da Silva Lopes, Betina; Moreira, Aurora; Watts, Mike – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2012
Higher education institutions are currently undertaking a challenging process in moving from teacher-orientated to student-focused approaches. Students' ability to asking questions is fundamental to developing critical reasoning, and to the process of scientific enquiry itself. Our premise is that questioning competences should become a central…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Science Education, Student Centered Curriculum, Critical Thinking
Communal E-Learning Styles in the Online Classroom
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Coole, Hilary; Watts, Mike – Research in Education, 2009
In this paper we explore the dispositions towards "communal e-learning" of a cohort of initial teacher trainees within a primary post-graduate (PGCE) programme. We describe a one-year case study involving 154 postgraduate trainees in West London, working to meet the nationally decreed "professional standards" for qualified…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Internet, Trainees, Teaching Methods
Teaching for Quality Learning in Chemistry. Research Report
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Teixeira-Dias, Jose J. C.; Pedrosa de Jesus, Helena; Neri de Souza, Francisle; Watts, Mike – International Journal of Science Education, 2005
In Portugal, the number of students in higher education increased from 80,000 in 1975 to 381,000 in 2000 (a change from 11% to 53% in the age group 18-22), meaning a major change in the diversity of student population with consequences well known and studied in other countries. The teaching of chemistry at the University of Aveiro, for the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Motivation, Learning Processes
The Personal Parameters of Cognition: Two Personal Aims in Science Education.
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Watts, Mike; Bentley, Di – Oxford Review of Education, 1984
Science education in Great Britain needs to develop more human and humane themes; e.g., students should study aspects of science that are essential to their self-understanding, and they should evaluate their own personal understanding of key scientific concepts and theories. Researchers should study the learning process variables of science…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Change, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives